Some Support for Wave Energy from Rhode Island

Here's a nice editorial, Waves of clean energy from the Providence Journal (8/3/2004) which advocates additional federal support for state efforts to make wave energy a reality in the US. Currently, the Department of Energy does not fund any ocean energy programs. Despite lack of federal support, states are moving ahead. A Maine advisory committee recently chose the Scottish Ocean Power Delivery for a pilot demonstration in 2006 along the state's southern coast. And the clean-energy funds of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut intend to provide as much as $1.5 million to Australian Tom Denniss to build a device off Rhode Island's Point Judith.